Alexander Pope Quotes

Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise! Each stamps its image as the other flies!

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

Thy voice I seem in ev'ry hymn to hear, with ev'ry bead I drop too soft a tear...

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence,
And fills up all the mighty void of sense!
If once right reason drives that cloud away,
Truth breaks upon us with resistless day;
Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,
Make use of ev'ry friend — and ev'ry foe.

But you with pleasure own your errors past,
And make each day a critique on the last.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Where, one step broken, the great scale’s destroyed: From Nature’s chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.

foreign Tyrants and of Nymphs at home; Here thou, great ANNA! whom three realms obey. Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes Tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a Court; 10 In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; 15 At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

If, where the rules not far enough extend,
(Since rules were made but to promote their end)
Some lucky licence answer to the full
The intent proposed, that licence is a rule.

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

Your silence there is better than your spite,
For who can rail so long as they can write?

Whatever is, is right.

Happy the man, whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.

Jangan gembira kalau seseorang ditindas,
Jangan kesal kalau seseorang mendapat berkah.

For the ancient poets are in one respect like many modern ladies: let an action be never so trivial in itself, they always make it appear of the utmost importance